Mecklenburg, is one of the few Democrats who's sponsored bills that passed the House this year. She joined the WUNC Politics ...

House Republicans were jubilant after muscling through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and immigration package by a single vote. But across the Capitol, senators were more cautious.

A bill unanimously passed by the Senate on Thursday and on its way to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk will increase the age that senior drivers in Illinois are required to take an annual driver's test.

The GOP-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes some big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The bill lowers the age of dependents from under 18 to under seven years old, but only in the context of Supplemental ...

It is obvious that a full investigation is warranted into what actually happened on that harrowing day,” said Rep. Vicki Lopez, a Florida House member from Miami-Dade.

Proposed cuts to the country’s largest food aid program could slash benefits currently going to one in six Oregonians or ...

The largely party-line vote over S.127 comes after more than a week of discord among House lawmakers over the marquee infrastructure program.

U.S. House Republicans narrowly passed a budget reconciliation bill early Thursday morning that pushes forward President ...

When House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package on a party-line vote of ...

After a marathon session in the House, lawmakers passed Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’. While it still has to go through the Senate before becoming a law, the implications are indeed big. Under ...